Old Calhoun County Courthouse - Bountstown, FL
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dimples1
N 30° 26.597 W 085° 02.588
16R E 687909 N 3369532
The old courthouse building in Blountstown, Fl.
Waymark Code: WM76DP
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/08/2009
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"Following the Civil War, a growing number of steamboats plied the waters of the Apalachicola River, busily transporting passengers, agricultural products and manufactured goods between the Gulf of Mexico and upstream locations in Florida, Alabama and Georgia. A river port had been established and a 26-block area was mapped out for the new community of Blountstown, named for the Seminole chief who had ruled much of the nearby territory during the early 19th Century. Periodic river flooding caused some residents to seek higher ground -- and "New Blountstown" began to develop around the turn of the century. In 1902 a movement began to build a new courthouse a mile north and west of the river town. In May 1903 the present city of Blountstown was chartered. The first Mayor, Francis Marion Yon had mapped out the town into streets, alleys, blocks and lots. Yon’s plat is still recognized as the first area surveyed for the city In 1904, after streets had been laid out and many buildings built in "New Blountstown," a much larger two-story brick courthouse was constructed just over a mile northwest of here on the town's principal east-west thouroughfare. In 1904 Calhoun County Commissioners awarded a contract to construct the court house (now known as the old courthouse) on Central Avenue." (taken from the Florida historic markers site, (
visit link) and the Calhoun County website, (
visit link) The building is made of stricking red brick and houses the Blountstown Police Department.
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